Waldemarsudde

After a few days with Mormor and Morfar, I went up to Stockholm for a long weekend. 
First day in Stockholm and it was absolutely gorgeous weather, so Erika and I decided to go out to Djurgården and visit Waldemarsudde. 

We started with a bit of lunch in the sun before heading in to the museum.

They had a temporary exhibition on about illustrators of children’s literature, which is where we started. 

We then visited the Mansion itself, so pretty. Imagine living here! 

 

Good taste in books! 

Waldemarsudde was built as the home of Prince Eugen (1865-1947) and is now one of Sweden's most popular art museums. The Museum consists of the palatial Mansion from 1903-05 and the Gallery Building, from 1913. The Mansion houses the Public Apartments, preserved in their original form.

In these apartments, a selection of Prince Eugen's own works are shown, as well as works from the collections. Prince Eugen was one of the finest landscape painters of his time, and a renowned art collector, who focused on Swedish, Nordic and French art.
Here Ateljéutsikt över Gamla Stan, by Isaac Grünewald.

 

 

Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait, 1895.

 

Varietéartist, 1910, by Henrik Sørensen.

 

Bakom ladugården, by Hans Heyerdahl.

 

 

There was also an exhibition about Christian Skredsvig, a Norwegian Modernist.

A wall with self-portraits, and some portraits of Skredsvig painted by friends. None of them seem to depict the same man.

Finally we enjoyed the gardens, and we were not the only ones. There was people stretched out on the grass everywhere, so nice to see, enjoying the sun and the lovely weather, having picnics and just relaxing. 

The smell of lilacs... one of my absolute favourites!

Summer in Sweden is really unbeatable, especially with views over water like here.